Your best bet is Facebook Marketplace depending on where you are located. Also, when I looked at the thumbnail, I was briefly convinced that the fan as-is was a legitimate model by Lasko. You did well with the venturi apparatus. The modern weather-shield blade compared to the recalled blade differs in pitch. The modern one is slightly less pitch but it is still okay. It was enough to convince me for a short period of time that both blade sets were the same. They actually were not.
@@sccpsteve Thank you! I might try Facebook market I’ve heard people find really good stuff going on there. You’re not alone I also Thought the older petal blades were the same as the current ones for a while but i found they aren’t.
The more powerful one with the larger rotor has physically wider poles that's why it's more powerful also makes it more efficient because it allows greater torque output for the same current draw
@@shawnhill3866 the strange part is i have a similar style motor from 2005 with a small rotor, it pulls 0.92 amps and is much more powerful. I have no idea why this ‘supreme’ motor in the video was built so poorly. I do remember the range in speeds were pretty awful too although my 2005 ‘promotor’ version has similar range in speeds to a 90s marco motor
It honestly depends and is seemingly random, Tory used to have a b20200 from 2014-15 that still used the huddled winding motor as well as 2013-14 b20200. There are some from 2012 that use the larger capacitor motor so its completely random. Some of the cool colors from 2014-15 still use the huddle winding motor despite me having a 2013-14 cool colors with the 8-pole motor. It appears the only huddled winding motors left in 2013-2015 were the ‘supreme’ motors
Lasko really needs better quality control. The new Air King fans at my school are having trouble oscillating or not oscillating at all after only a few years of hanging.
I compared something like this (i7 4771 + GTX 1650) with modern powerful i7 13700 + RTX 4060, it kinda suprised to see how well it keep up nowadays ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-B2SOPeelmCo.htmlsi=Vj13lXDPJbTb5C1S
I clicked because I have one that I haven't Frankensteined yet. Mine has an i5 7500 though. You can install win11 on it fairly easy as there are plenty of tutorials on how to do it out there, not that I'll ever switch to 11.
I now am in possession of a recalled motor (as you probably know from watching my video of it). On my recalled motor (it is an **actual** recalled motor from 2000-01 and also not saying yours isn't recalled but mine is just older and "better") the iron core is as thick as modern WeatherShield motors IIRC. I don't know if that's true though. Mine has a 4uF capacitor. Mine has the same amount of copper visually compared to yours. The Hungder motor is quite inferior. A motor from a 3733 from 2005-06 is not as powerful as a recalled motor. I know this because I had bought a 2005-06 3733 and it had thinner blades. If I put a recalled blade on it, the motor would perform slower. No, the 2005-06 motor was not involved in the recall because it was paired with a Blue Plug. On my recalled motor the wire comes out the back of the motor as opposed to the side, and the recalled motor is mounted in the back as opposed to mounting on the front of the "insulation ring".
I never said the 3733 motor is as powerful as the recalled motor, all i said was it’s probably the same motor but evolved to be less powerful. The very first recalled motors did appear to have a much bigger stator tho so you’re probably right. I’m very curious to why mine uses a 5uf as opposed to the typical 4uf capacitors. I have noticed mine runs unusually fast on low speed for a weather shield fan and idk if it’s due to the larger capacitor or if the blade is flimsier. My weather shield motor is probably recalled the winding look the same as the other recalled motors but it used the modern motor housing.
There are several possibilities: A) because it has no fused plug and that B) the motor has rubout points - in my recalled motor, I saw a few points of the insulation inside of the motor were flattened and close to wearing through, and C) dust buildup = overheating.
Couldn't really observe any shake/vibration as you moved the camera around too much. The camera has to fixed on a mount and rock steady if you're going to film vibrations.
Okay cool father, if you pay attention you can see when the fan on the right is running on low, it makes the other fan shake. It is undeniably out of balance
@@Fanscarsetc You may see it, but I played your video several times to notice it before posting. Thanks for pointing it out, but it's extremely difficult to see with all that camera movement. Use studio production techniques to point out the little things, like I suggested earlier. It would make for a more convincing video. 😉
Also: If you get any more of these pot aluminum motors that have the octagonal stator, please ship a few out to me so I can use them or have them as spares. I will absolutely cover shipping.
Love frankenstein builds. Im thinking of getting one and drilling holes in the panel to pass the riser cable through and screw on some wood platform or something to place the gpu 😂.
I believe Lasko may have started phasing in some new molds for new blades. The inner text has the Arial Rounded font on the glossier variant (which oddly has slightly more blade pitch, cool!) and a different font on the matte variant with less blade pitch than the glossier blades. I know this because I bought an Air King 9733 (which obviously has the 3733 blades), it had the glossy blade set with more pitch, and compared it on a huddled winding 3733 motor to a standard less pitched 3733 blade. They were slightly different in sound but look the same pitch-wise. It's nowhere near the weather-shield though.
Speaking of the weather shields, i’ve noticed the older ones have a wider, more flower petal shape than the newer ones like mine which have a narrower diamond shape. Idk if the older ones move more air than the newer ones cause i haven’t tested an older weather shield yet, but i imagine they move much more air. I have noticed the glossier blade seems to be quieter and spins slower than the other blades, and spinning at the same rpm as other blades it moves a bit more air. The new blade molds will probably be a lot better than the current ones.
@@Fanscarsetc I can't say for sure since I don't own an old weather shield, but my recalled 3700 certainly moves waaay more air than a modern weather-shield. Does the old weather shield in question have that "highly pronounced ring" in the center of the blade hub?
@@sccpsteve Yes, the older petal blade-sets have the ring in the center, the newer ones don’t. I believe that blade was made up untill around 2013 because jordan has a 3720 from that era and it still has that blade.
@@Fanscarsetc I was informed that all Laskos with a ring in the center are the equivalent power of a recalled box fan. I don't know if that's true but that's what I was told.
@@sccpsteve I actually just watched one of Eli’s videos and apparently in 2003 or 04 the weather-shields moved to a similar blade as the ones today but i’m not sure if the pitch changed or not.
Good comparison between both 3733s I enjoyed the video, especially the 3733 that doesn't shake. That is a 1st for Lasko I wished they made them all like that. But that's just not the case with them all the time.
This has definitely shocked me that there are box fans out there with good blade balance. I didn’t mention it but that blade is also quieter than the other crappy blades they use
@@Fanscarsetc wow that’s good to know its seems like Lasko is slowly getting their act together hopefully this will continue that keep the blades and motor quieter and in perfect balance it’s about time
Regarding the GPU, the PCIe Slot provides 75W and the 6pin cable from the PSU provides another 75W, the cpu on these optiplexes is usually a 65W, you can do your math, but the gist of it is that you can basically put any gpu with a 6pin power connector and it will be fine, not the most efficient, because PSU's efficiency peak is at at around 50 to 60% load if i remember correctly, but still in the safe zone, if you wanna upgrade you could look for a RX 6500 XT, i think the Gigabyte has a 6pin, and all it's ITX variants should be running a 6pin.
I am watching this on an old optiplex 790 I upgraded. i5 2400 to an i7 2600, no gpu to a low GTX 1050 2gb and got 12gb of ram in it. also added an ssd as a main drive on top of the harddrive in it. It certainly isnt the best machine but for most low to medium end games it runs perfectly. Even minecraft runs at 300-400 fps without mods. For about $130 AUD including upgrades it was absolutely worth it. It also doesnt overflow out of the case, but only just
Typically, these tuna cylinder motors come with plenty of lubrication from the factory, with minimal exceptions. Same goes with the tuna square motors. Therefore adding zoom spout will cause problems as you probably added more than 6 drops on the front/rear bearings. AFAIK there will not be a problem with the windings coming into contact with zoom spout.
Jordan is the one who advocates for motor lubrication but the newer motors don’t come with much oil if any at all. The older ‘huddled winding’ psc motors, like this one in the video seem to come with good lubrication but some of the new ones i’ve found to be bone dry. I made sure to not put too much oil in the bearings to prevent this but idk i guess it still was too much
@@Fanscarsetc It varies across each manufacturer of the motor. Take for example Cophaco's tuna cylinder motors had plenty of oil. But Hungder (HV) had a little less, and Well-Champion (WC/WG) had little to none at all.
@@sccpsteve Lmao i’ve never heard of those crazy names besides the ‘HV’ motors. I do agree tho some of the brands have more oil than others but the cophaco motors i’ve used before also had no oil in them. The motor in the video appears to have no brand on it besides “PM” on the capacitor so I can’t really trace what manufacture but i do have a “glory” variant of the same motor and it had plenty of oil in it despite being over 10 years old.
@@Fanscarsetc I found a glory motor that had rusted out the steel bearings. But with a bit of convincing it freed right up. I tried pulling the shaft out of the bearing and the whole bearing popped out of course so I replaced it with one from a HV motor. It still runs in my bathroom 24/7. I was wrong about the Cophaco. I thought I had saw oil in it but that was my imagination. I was thinking about the old promotor from my older 3733
@@sccpsteve A rusted out bearing is crazy. Eli lasko had the same issue on his channel but it was with the older 1.1 amp recalled motor but that fan was abused by a smoker. One motor i’ve struggled to find is one of those “supreme” motors that exist in the lasko/galaxy fans from like 2009-2014. I did find one from a 2006-07 3733 but it appears to be a crappy first iteration of it. The second versions seem to be much better, and oddly enough that motor still exists today in the ‘USA’ limited edition cool colors box fans.
I use oil on my fans every year. If you use the fan in a room with dust, you might want to oil them more frequently. The oil I use is left over new 5w-30 motor oil, works great. No, I don't oil the copper windings.
i took out the psu on my optiplex 5040 for better cooling of my amd firepro w5100 bc that mf has the ball bearings on the fan diein so it spins uncorrect and a laptop cooling pad mounted to the top its hella jank but it works lol
these optiplex machines of this era are great canvases for a cheap lil gaming machine. I had an optiplex 3050 with an i5 7500 that I put an old 1050ti in and it ran real nice.
Capacitor probably didn't die completely but lost most of its capacitance, very little torque may indicate that. Try replacing it, maybe it'll run again XD
@@Fanscarsetc Woah where’s this hostility coming from? My best friend is autistic and I make fun of him all the time. So you’d be wrong. Typical hostile behavior from your type.
@@Secret_Pickle How do you know i’m autistic? Where did any of this come from? I’m not your friend so idk what the intent was behind that comment. Please elabrate on what you mean by “your type”
@@Fanscarsetc I’m sure you’re aware of crime statistics. RU-vid will delete my comment if I state any other facts about it. I can tell you’re autistic because you literally started a RU-vid channel dedicated to fans. That’s autism behavior. There’s nothing wrong with that, though. I find autistics entertaining, so I was excited to find your channel. You lot give me hearty chuckles.
They took tuna can motors to the next level. (And the newer ones are tuna squares of course) Also the motor quit because the "Blue Plug" has a fuse in it which popped.
@@Fluffberymoff idk if you saw the video but i put the windmachine blade on it which is an objectively heavier and thicker blade than the typical 3733s. I would probably need an early 2000s 1.1 amp psc motor for a metal blade to work
I have this box fan. Very poor air flow. I just bought the Lasko pedestal fan. There are two versions. The 16 inch 3 blade and the 18 inch 5 blade. I paid a little more and went with the 18 inch. Its a good fan with super good air flow that can be felt from a distance. That's my recomendation.
@@nickv4073 my recommendation would be to either look for an older weathershield or Venturi grille box fan with the older 1.1 amp psc motor. Those are some of the best cheaper fans ever made
